The federal judge overseeing the case against former national-security advisor Michael Flynn moved on Tuesday to delay the Justice Department’s request to dismiss the case, saying he will allow third parties to weigh in before dropping the case.
Judge Emmet Sullivan said he will allow parties outside the DOJ and Flynn’s defense team to file “friend of the court” briefs on the charges against Flynn, who pled guilty in 2017 to lying to the FBI but withdrew his guilty plea earlier this year.
“The Court will enter a Scheduling Order governing the submission of any amicus curiae briefs,” the judge wrote in a Tuesday order.
Flynn’s attorneys objected to the decision, saying in a court filing Tuesday that while there are “countless people” who would like to weigh in on the case, there is “no place for third parties to meddle in the dispute, and certainly not to usurp the role of the government’s counsel.”
“This travesty of justice has already consumed three or more years of an innocent man’s life — and that of his entire family,” Flynn’s lawyers said. “No further delay should be tolerated or any further expense caused to him and his defense.”
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